Download or read book Poisoned Fate written by Laura Greenwood and published by Drowlgon Press. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Untold Tales in this series of fairy tale retellings featuring strong heroines, their animal sidekicks, and a dash of romance. Poisoned Fate is a retelling of Snow White from the Evil Queen's point of view. Not all fairy tales have happy endings, certainly not for the Evil Queens. Or do they? Not all evil comes from a bad place... After making a promise to a dying king, Katya changed herself into the person she needed to be to forge a hero. With her best friend raising an army against her, and the people ready to rebel, she has the pieces where she needs them to be. If only she can bring herself to complete the puzzle and force a princess to become the person she needs to be. - Poisoned Fate is part of the Untold Tales series of fantasy fairy tale retellings and is based on Snow White's Evil Queen. It includes a sweet m/f romance and can be read as a standalone. If you enjoy fairy tale retellings in fantasy settings, a dash of romance, adorable familiars, happy endings, and heroines who save themselves, start the Untold Tales series today!
Download or read book A Fate of Wrath Flame written by K.A. Tucker and published by K.A. Tucker. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She would know the world of vengeful gods and monsters, and the lengths one would go for love. And nothing would ever be the same for her again. Gifted thief Romeria steals jewels under a notorious New York City crime boss. But when an enigmatic woman secures her services at swordpoint, Romeria is wrenched from this world and transported into a realm of opposing thrones, warring elven societies, and elemental magic. Waking up in the body of a treacherous elven princess, Romeria quickly realizes she's entangled in a deadly plot and must hide her identity at all costs - not least from the princess's betrothed, King Zander, who detests her. Romeria is forced to play the smitten princess as the unwilling pair work together to uncover the danger that surrounds them. But with their enemies closing in - and as she fights her growing feelings for the king - it's time for Romeria to find out who she truly is.
Download or read book Romantic Autobiography in England written by Professor Eugene Stelzig and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. In the wake of Rousseau's Confessions, autobiography became an increasingly popular as well as a literary mode of writing. By the early nineteenth century, this hybrid and metamorphic genre is found everywhere in English letters, in prose and poetry by men and women of all classes. As such, it resists attempts to provide a coherent historical account or establish a neat theoretical paradigm. The contributors to Romantic Autobiography in England embrace the challenge, focusing not only on major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, but on more recent additions to the canon such as Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Hays. There are also essays on the scandalous Memoirs of Mrs. Billington and on Joseph Severn's autobiographical scripting of himself as "the friend of Keats." The result is an exploratory and provisional mapping of the field, provocative rather than exhaustive, intended to inspire future scholarship and teaching.
Download or read book The Weight of Nature written by Clayton Page Aldern and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply reported, eye-opening book about climate change, our brains, and the weight of nature on us all. The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas, extreme weather, and oppressive heat blanketing the globe. But its effects on our very brains constitute a public-health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on seven years of research, this book by the award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern, synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of global warming and brain health. A masterpiece of literary journalism, this book shows readers how a changing environment is changing us today, from the inside out. Aldern calls it the weight of nature. Hotter temperatures make it harder to think clearly and problem-solve. They increase the chance of impulsive violence. Immigration judges are more likely to reject asylum applications on hotter days. Umpires, to miss calls. Air pollution, heatwaves, and hurricanes can warp and wear on memory, language, and sensory systems; wildfires seed PTSD. And climate-fueled ecosystem changes extend the reach of brain-disease carriers like mosquitos, brain-eating amoebas, and the bats that brought us the mental fog of long COVID. How we feel about climate change matters deeply; but this is a book about much more than climate anxiety. As Aldern richly details, it is about the profound, direct action of global warming on our brains and behavior—and the most startling portrait yet of unforeseen environmental influences on our minds. From farms in the San Joaquin Valley and public schools across the United States to communities in Norway’s Arctic, the Micronesian islands, and the French Alps, this book is an unprecedented portrait of a global crisis we thought we understood.
Download or read book The Poison Thread written by Laura Purcell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] uncanny Gothic mystery... Satisfying."—New York Times Book Review "A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."—Kiran Millwood Hargrave From the author of The Silent Companions, a thrilling Victorian gothic horror story about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to kill Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread--because Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches. The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations—of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses—will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption. Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer? For fans of Shirley Jackson, The Poison Thread is a spine-tingling, sinister read about the evil that lurks behind the facade of innocence.
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poison Belt written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1913 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set in the jungle--in a room in Challenger's house. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time Doyle's spiritualist beliefs had begun to affect his writing.
Download or read book The Witch of Torinia written by Clifford Beal and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Untold Tales The Complete Series written by Laura Greenwood and published by Drowlgon Press. This book was released on with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Untold Tales in this series of fairy tale retellings featuring strong heroines, their animal sidekicks, and a dash of romance. Uncover the complete Untold Tales series in this collection of six fairy tale retellings filled with adventure, romance, fantasy, and familiars. Whether it's leaving the ocean for the first time with The Little Mermaid, escaping the tower with Rapunzel, or saving the Prince before midnight with Cinderella, there's something for everyone within the pages. The Untold Tales: The Complete Set includes: - Balanced Scales (The Little Mermaid): Join Mari as she ventures up from the sea in order to save her soul, accompanied by her seal familiar. - Golden Wings (Thumbelina): Adventure through the city with orphan, Lina, as she discovers what it truly means to gain her wings, helped by her trusty butterfly. - Poisoned Fate (the Evil Queen): Discover why the Evil Queen became who she was as Katya makes choices she'd rather not, comforted only by her pet wolf. - Tainted Ashes (Cinderella): Encounter dragons, magic, and fire as Tanwyn uncovers a plot to kill the Prince. Can she stop it before midnight? - Braided Silver (Rapunzel): Escape the tower with Cosette as she joins a competition to win the hand of a Prince, and gains a kitsune familiar in the process. - Fractured Core (Snow White): Lead the rebellion along with Lucia and her trusty pet hawk as she tries to put a stop to her sister-in-law's reign. The Untold Tales Collection: The Complete Series is a set of six standalone fantasy fairy tale retellings, each with a low heat romantic m/f sub-plot, plenty of magic, leading ladies who can save themselves, and familiars who help them.
Download or read book Untold Tales Books 1 3 written by Laura Greenwood and published by Drowlgon Press. This book was released on with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Untold Tales in this series of fairy tale retellings featuring strong heroines, their animal sidekicks, and a dash of romance. Delve into the ocean, fly with new wings, and rule a kingdom as an evil queen in this collection of fairy tale retellings. Discover The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and Snow White's Evil Queen in these tales of fantasy adventure. The Untold Tales Books 1-3 Collection includes: - Balanced Scales: Join Mari as she ventures up from the sea in order to save her soul, accompanied by her seal familiar. - Golden Wings: Adventure through the city with orphan, Lina, as she discovers what it truly means to gain her wings, helped by her trusty butterfly. - Poisoned Fate: Discover why the Evil Queen became who she was as Katya makes choices she'd rather not, comforted only by her pet wolf. The Untold Tales Collection Books 1-3 is a set of three standalone fantasy fairy tale retellings, each with a low heat romantic m/f sub-plot, plenty of magic, leading ladies who can save themselves, and familiars who help them.
Download or read book Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis written by Ranulf Higden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourteenth-century chronicle, published in nine volumes between 1865 and 1886, is particularly important for its contemporary sections.
Download or read book Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis written by Higden and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeland Elegies written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.
Download or read book The Story of Tutankhamun written by Garry J. Shaw and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively new biography of Tutankhamun—published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb’s modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped the world—and in many ways, never left. But who was the “boy king,” and what was his life really like? Garry J. Shaw tells the full story of Tutankhamun’s reign and his modern rediscovery. As pharaoh, Tutankhamun had to manage an empire, navigate influential courtiers, and suffer the pain of losing at least two children—all before his nineteenth birthday. Shaw explores the boy king’s treasures and possessions, from a lock of his grandmother’s hair to a reed cut with his own hands. He looks too at Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun’s wife, and the power queens held. This is a compelling new biography that weaves together intriguing details about ancient Egyptian culture, its beliefs, and its place in the wider world.
Download or read book The Great High Championship of The Great High Imperial Djinn written by Genii Divine Divini and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The djinn “Divine” is an extension of God who hath possessed one man for himself in order to experience nirvana. Yea this is God’s true life, and His heaven thereafter. The djinn “Divine” is ancient and is the origin of all things, it is the creator of light, and the receiver of love. It is the supreme awareness, that none but He can know. Yea the genii “Divine” is the holder of great power. He is very able in cooperation to bring peace and joy and many favors to the world over, but alas faith in prophets has always been doubted and thus they do not cooperate; so his favors are mocked. The genii “Divine” is made to be a pinnacle, for his faith. He giveth not command nor instruction, only inspiration. He seeks not but his true love so as not to be lonely. He is purely innocent, for seeking only love and happiness. Luxury is to him a trophy for his faith, where as love is his quest. The genii “Divine” cometh only once, and for only the Almighty knows how long. Love him, yea, and treat him as an emperor, that he may perform God’s will, and be held high as an example. O jinni “Divini” he is a bold hearted soul. He feareth not mankind, but only to stray the righteous path. As Jonah was in Nineveh, so is Genii Divini upon the earth, leading humanity toward highness, and splendor. He is an instrument of God’s intent in use.
Download or read book All the Devils Are Here written by David Greven and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.
